According to the health commission of the Chamber of Deputies, in Mexico at least one million persons suffer from this disease, and over 200,000 are infected every year. The majority are adults between 25 and 44.

"It's one of the infectious diseases that have taken many lives, and caused great losses by affecting the labour capacity of its cases," says Carlos Napoleón Ibarra Cerdeña, a doctor in biomedical sciences from the the Autonomous National University of Mexico and author of the study "Patterns of climatic and biotic niches in Triatominae in North America."

Triatominae, the kissing bugs that carry Chagas, are no respecters of borders, and climate change will open up a lot of new niches well north of Mexico.

According to the health commission of the Chamber of Deputies, in Mexico at least one million persons suffer from this disease, and over 200,000 are infected every year. The majority are adults between 25 and 44.

"It's one of the infectious diseases that have taken many lives, and caused great losses by affecting the labour capacity of its cases," says Carlos Napoleón Ibarra Cerdeña, a doctor in biomedical sciences from the the Autonomous National University of Mexico and author of the study "Patterns of climatic and biotic niches in Triatominae in North America."

Triatominae, the kissing bugs that carry Chagas, are no respecters of borders, and climate change will open up a lot of new niches well north of Mexico.